Native Cultural Competency in Mainstream Schooling - "Outsider" Teachers with Insider Knowledge

This book provides an in-depth analysis of Native American educational issues in the Northeast and highlights teacher training and instruction that address the experience and needs of the many Native students that attend reservation border town schools. Williams and Cole expand upon the results of a participatory action study that explored the barriers to success for Native American students in mainstream schooling during the process of creating and implementing a Native cultural competency teacher-training program for classroom teachers. They document the evolution of cross-cultural relationships and interactions in a diverse schooling context and aim to usher in concrete changes in school experiences and educational outcomes for Native American students by fostering non-Native teachers' growth in cultural competency.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Study.- Chapter 3. Cultural Disconnect.- Chapter 4. History of Mohawk Education in Mainstream Schooling.- Chapter 5. Mistrust.- Chapter 6. 200% Education: The Two-Strand Wampum Treaty.- Chapter 7. Developmental Trajectory of Understanding: A Model for Change.- Chapter 8. The Teacher Training Program: Content and Implementation.- Chapter 9. Cultural Competency: Outcomes and Applications.

About the author

Sharon Vegh Williams is Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at St. Lawrence University, USA.
Joni M. Cole is Education Development Specialist for the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe in Akwesasne, USA.

Summary

Studies the collaborative efforts of Native and non-Native educators and demonstrates how the discordant relationship between the Native and non-Native communities negatively impact students, teachers, and the school district as a whole
Leverages cross-cultural collaboration in the service of broad-based, district-wide systemic change for heterogeneous, reservation border town communities
Analysis of the results of the study culminates in a practical, research-based model for teacher training in Native cultural competency applicable to a variety of regional and national school settings

Product details

• Authors: Joni M Cole, Joni M. Cole, Sharon Veg Williams, Sharon Vegh Williams
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783319677941
• ISBN: 978-3-31-967794-1
• No. of pages: 106
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 14 mm x 218 mm
• Weight: 265 g
• Illustrations: XXI, 106 p. 4 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; C, Sociology of Education, Education, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology, Social & cultural anthropology, Philosophy & theory of education, Social Anthropology, Social research & statistics, Educational Philosophy, Education—Philosophy, Educational sociology, Ethnicity in Education, Sociocultural Anthropology, Schools and Schooling, Schools